2018 Highlights

2018: A year dedicated to "Safe investments for Safe water and sanitation"

Dear Partners, Friends and Colleagues,

Thanks to your continuous support and trust, leveraging our shared passion and energy, 2018 has been an exciting and productive year for Waterpreneurs.​​

See below a highlight of Waterpreneurs main achievements, focusing on a dialogue and multi-stakeholder solutions around issues of human rights, security and peace in the world, through the development of investments addressing entrepreneurs who provide basic services to the most vulnerable populations, in particular through access to drinking water and sanitation.

• ASSESS

• Launch of our White Paper on Impact Investing for Water and sanitation at the World Water Forum in Brasilia (March)

• Design of a framework of SDG6 indicators for social entrepreneurs with CERISE and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (May)

• Global Water Partnership on-line Training (July)

• CONNECT

• Launch of the global roll-out of the “Innovate 4 Water” worldwide series **our flagship activity** (March)

• "Innovate 4 Water" - Nairobi (April)

• Zug Impact Summit (September)

• Design of a SDG6 focused thematic with the Accelerate2030 Programme (Autumn)

• "Innovate 4 Water" - Abuja (November)

• Good Water Summit (December)

• Launch of Waterpreneurs membership (December)

• SCALE-UP

• Joining the Sanitation and Water for All Private Sector Constituency (January)

• Launch of the Swiss Water Entrepreneurship Pact

• Partnership with the World Alliance for efficient solutions / Solar Impulse Foundation (March)

• Promotion of impact investments funds in the water and sanitation sector (May)

• Joining the OECD Water Governance Initiative (November)

Looking forward to engaging and collaborating further with you, to achieve Safe investments for Safe water and sanitation.

Kind regards,

Waterpreneurs team